ANNA DEL MORAL MÉNDEZ

Professional scientist with proven track record in project execution and scientific inquiry. Known for delivering meticulous research and innovative solutions in complex projects. Focused on team collaboration and adaptability to meet evolving project demands, leveraging strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• 2024 - Special Recognition Award, EOL, NSF NCAR
• 2024 - Special Recognition Award for Lecturers in the 2024 Explorer Series- EdEC, NSF NCAR
• 2020 - Early Career Scientists Assembly (ECSA) Steering Committee Travel Award, NSF NCAR
• 2019 - Advanced Study Program-Graduate Visitor Program, NSF NCAR
• 2018 - ERAD Travel Support, 10th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology
• 2017 - Young Scientist Travel Award (YSTA), EMS
• 2016 - EGU Support Award for Early Career Scientist, 15th Plinius Scientific Committee,
• 2016 and 2017 - Travel Award, UB

• 2025 - present: EdEC University Partnerships Section EOL Representative
• 2025 - present: Member of the Science Observers group at UCAR for representation at UNCCC
• 2025 - Co-chair of community session for the AMS Radar Conference 2025
• 2024 - Contributor to discussions on 3 strategic themes in NCAR's Strategic Plan
• 2024- present: CSP EOL Ambassador – Working Group 3 (Strategic communication with NSF NCAR labs & programs)
• 2024, 2025: Trainer: Open Radar Workshop – LROSE team, ERAD 2024
• Trainer: LROSE Workshop – AMS 2025
• Trainer: LROSE training with the Egyptian Meteorological Agency
• Trainer (assistant): LROSE SAMURAI Workshop
• 2024 - present - NSF NCAR Convergence Science Program Ambassador
• 2024 - Panelist at the NSF NCAR Professional Development Workshop Series
• 2024 - Seminar at the UIUC Summer Radar School
• 2024 - Doppler on Wheels (DOW, UAH) radar facility external advisory committee
• 2024 - XRAD (Meteorological Service of Catalonia) radar network external advisory committee
• 2024 - UCAR Africa Initiative workshop organization and seminar series lead

• Pineda N. Rodriguez, O., Van der Velde O., Montanyà J., del Moral Méndez A., Castán S., 2025: Total lightning for early warning: the tornadic supercell with giant hail on July 6, 2023, (submitted to EJSSM)
• Tang, V., Kumar R., del Moral Méndez, A., et al., (2025) Unlocking the Potential of Collaborative Research on Africa's Environmental Challenges: Air quality and Health, Climate and Weather, and land and water. BAMS (accepted for publication)
• Del Moral Méndez, A., R. D. Roberts, T. M. Weckwerth, and J. W. Wilson (2025): Towards improved short-term forecasting for Lake Victoria Basin: Part II – Pre-convective environment analysis with ERA5. Mon. Wea. Rev., https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-24-0074.1, in press.
• Del Moral Méndez, A., T.M. Weckwerth, R.D. Roberts, and J.W. Wilson (2023). Toward Improved Short-Term Forecasting for Lake Victoria Basin. Part I: A Radar-Based Convective Mode Analysis. Wea. Forecasting, 38, 3509-2526, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0039.1
• Tartaglione, N., Desbiolles, F., del Moral-Méndez, A., Meroni, A. N., Napoli, A., Borgnino, M., Parodi, A., and Pasquero, C. (2024). Low cloud response to aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions: Idealized WRF numerical experiments for EUREC4A project. Atmos. Sci. Lett., e1208. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.1208
• Llasat, M. C., del Moral, A., Cortès, M., and Rigo, T. (2021). Convective precipitation trends in the Spanish Mediterranean region. Atmos. Res., 257, 105581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105581
• Del Moral, A., Weckwerth, T.M., Rigo, T., Bell, M.M., Llasat, M.C (2020). C-Band Dual-Doppler Retrievals in Complex Terrain: Improving the Knowledge of Severe Storm Dynamics in Catalonia. Remote Sensing, 12(18), 2930, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12182930
• Del Moral, A., Llasat, M.C and Rigo, T. (2020). Connecting flash flood events with radar-derived convective storm characteristics on the northwestern Mediterranean coast: knowing the present for better future scenarios adaptation. Atmos. Res, 238, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.104863
• Rehbein, A. M., Rugna, M., Hobouchian, M. P., del Moral, A., Goodman, S. J., Lindsey, D. T., Thomas, J. (2020). A Workshop on the Next Generation Environmental Satellite Constellations. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 101, E763–E770, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0349.1.
• Del Moral, A., Rigo, T. and Llasat, M.C. (2018). A radar-based centroid tracking algorithm for severe weather surveillance: identifying split/merge processes in convective systems. Atmos. Res., 213, 110-120, ISSN 0169-8095, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.05.030.
• Del Moral, A., Llasat, M.C and Rigo, T. (2016) Identification of anomalous motion of thunderstorms using daily rainfall fields. Atmos.Res., 185, 92-100, ISSN 0169-8095,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.11.001

• 2025 - Educational Experiences in Atmospheric Science Field Campaigns: A Community Workshop, CSU, US
• 2024 - NSF NCAR Early Career Leadership Program (ECLP), Boulder, CO, USA
• 2024 - New Lenses for Engagement virtual workshop (relationship-building with historically marginalized and at-risk communities with the Earth system science), CO, USA
• 2019 - NOAA/NASA Satellite Meteorology Summer Workshop, CIRA, CO, USA
• 2019 - Joint WRF and MPAS Users' Workshop, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CO, USA
• 2018 - 7th CNR/ISAC Summer School on Precipitation: Remote Sensing and Modeling, Italy
• 2017 - Forecasting of Severe Convective Storms, 9th European Conference on Severe Storms – Croatia

• 2021 - EUREC4A-OA: Improving the representation of small-scale nonlinear ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate models by innovative joint observing and modeling approaches, EU
• 2007 - 2020 – HYMEX (Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean EXperiment), EU
• 2018 - 2020 - PIRAGUA: Evaluation and prospective of the water resources of the Pyrenees in a context of Climate Change, and adaptation measures with impact on the territory (in Spanish), EU
• 2018 - A journey through droughts and floods in our city. from witnesses to leaders (in Catalan), Spain
• 2018 - 2020 - M-CostAdapt: Adaptation routes to Climate Change in the Mediterranean coastal zone. Overcoming the limits of adaptability, Spain
• 2017 - Weather explorers: Discovering natural risks in Barcelona and the role of citizens in their knowledge (in Catalan), Spain
• 2015 - 2017 HOPE: Holistic analysis of the impact of extreme rainfall and flooding and their introduction in future scenarios. Application to adaptation and resilience strategies (in Spanish), Spain
• 2014 - 2015 - FLOOD-UP. Exploring our resilience in flash floods (in Spanish), Spain

• 2017- 2021 - La Universitat de l'Experiència, UB (Spain)
• Remote exploration of the atmosphere: Weather radar, History of Meteorology and Instrumentation, Microphysics of clouds and precipitation I and II, Advanced instrumentation and experimental campaigns, Fieldwork: Fabra Observatory and Barcelona rainwater tanks
• 2016 -2020 - Gaudir UB, UB (Spain)
• Weather and Basic Concepts of Meteorology, Observing Weather and Climate
• 2015 - 2018 - Official Physics B.S., UB (Spain)
• Fundamentals of Laboratory, Differential Equations and Vectorial Calculus, Meteorology and Climatology

• 12/2024-03/2025 – Idaho Department of Water Resource Cloud Seeding Experiment (US)
• 03/2022 - 04/2022 – PERiLS (Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms) (US)
• 09/2019 - HAL (Hurricanes at Landfall) (US)
• 05/2019 - TWIRL (Tornadic Winds: In-situ and Radar observation at Low levels), Oklahoma/Texas, USA
• 10/2018 - 12/2018 - RELAMPAGO (Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations) (Argentina)